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- 0637 Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
- 1137 Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1270 8th & last crusade is launched
- 1270 The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1340 Battle of Rio Salado.
- 1470 Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
- 1485 Henry VII of England crowned.
- 1502 Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
- 1775 Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies.
- 1799 William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain.
- 1831 In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
- 1863 Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- 1864 Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
- 1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
- 1864 Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
- 1871 Phila Athletics beat Chicago for first Natl Assn baseball pennant
- 1888 First ballpoint pen patented
- 1893 Charles Atlas (real name Angelo Siciliano), bodybuilder born
- 1894 Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
- 1917 Lt. Hugh Mackenzie (7th Cdn. Machine Gun Company) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1917 Sgt. George Harry Mullin (Princess Patricia's Cdn. Light Infantry) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
- 1918 The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1922 Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
- 1925 John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- 1929 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1930 Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
- 1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland
- 1940 HMS STURDY, lost west coast of Scotland, on Tiree Island - ran aground in fog and wrecked.
- 1941 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
- 1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
- 1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1945 Henry Winkler, actor (Happy Days, the Fonz) born
- 1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 1945 US government announces end of shoe rationing
- 1947 The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- 1948 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
- 1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
- 1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
- 1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1960 Visitor posting - William T. Moore born - USA
- 1960 Visitor posting - Vijay U Kateja was born at 7.29am - India
- 1961 Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
- 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
- 1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
- 1965 The Canadian National-Canadian Pacific passenger pool train arrangement is terminated.
- 1965 Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- 1967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make first automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
- 1970 In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1972 A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
- 1972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
- 1973 The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- 1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Za‹re
- 1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
- 1975 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
- 1975 Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
- 1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show
- 1976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of the United Church of Christ
- 1978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
- 1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
- 1980 El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1980 Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
- 1980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
- 1983 The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1985 Visitor posting - Amanda Gonzalez is born! - USA
- 1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
- 1986 Visitor posting - Peter Yoshio Pfaller born - met the love of his life at 23 and lived happily ever after maybe :) - USA
- 1987 Creation of Anprotec, the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators, which nowadays comprises circa 400 business incubators and 50 science and technology parks initiatives.
- 1987 In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
- 1988 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
- 1988 Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for U.S. $13.1 billion.
- 1988 Visitor posting - Michelle Annunziata Bartholomew was born-Philadephia PA - USA
- 1989 Charles Tomas Sawdon, the young kingpin of future crime and deviance is born in York.
- 1991 The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Benjamin Walter Neal is born
- 1995 Quebec Separatists narrowly defeated ( 50.6 percent to 49.4) in a vote to remain within the federation of Canada
- 1995 Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
- 1996 RaiLink-Ottawa Valley takes over operation of the former CP line between Smiths Falls and Cartier, Ont as well as the Mattawa to Temiskaming branch in Quebec.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Emily C. was born - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Tiffiney S was born - Canada
- 2002 British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
- 2005 The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Jaelin Alex Redican is born in Phoenix, Arizona - USA
- 2008 Visitor posting - SORDUM MICHELLE DONALD WAS BORN - Nigeria
- 2009 A U.S. judge orders a trial for two doctors and a lawyer accused of providing American sex symbol Anna Nicole Smith with drugs. (
- 2009 A large fire at an oil depot on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, leaves six people dead and around 135 injured.
- 2009 African Union leaders agree to establish a hybrid court to end the Darfur conflict in western Sudan.
- 2009 Burmese authorities arrest 50 people – including journalists, students and political activists, in a security crackdown, according to a Thailand based human rights group.
- 2009 European Union leaders agree a climate aid deal to help developing countries adapt to global warming.
- 2009 Former French President Jacques Chirac is ordered to stand trial on corruption charges. (France 24)
- 2009 Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti and ousted President Manuel Zelaya agree a deal to end the political crisis, reinstating Zelaya as President.
- 2009 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approves plans to allow non-Latin web addresses for the first time.
- 2009 NASA reveals that a partial parachute failure resulted in damage to the Ares I-X test booster upon splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean following its test flight on Wednesday.
- 2009 Native tribesmen in the Amazon Rainforest discover a downed Brazilian military transport plane, finding nine survivors.
- 2009 South Korea's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, names North Korea's telecommunications ministry as responsible for a wave of cyber attacks in July.
- 2009 Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou calls on China to remove missiles targeting the island.
- 2009 Typhoon Mirinae makes landfall in the Philippines.
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